Hey guys so in today's post I would be sharing with you all a way to decorate your notebooks for the new year. I know that a lot of students like to bring a new notebook to school on a new year. At least, the kids in my school do. (But then they are all girls so). Anyway, I also know a lot of people like to personalise their notebook to make it uniquely theirs. At least the girls in my school do. So they buy these plain cover notebooks and they scribble their names, some print photos of their favourite band, some draw, some stick jewels and stickers all over their notebook. All these are wonderful ideas but I just want to share with you guys a way I found out this year. So this year, as soon as I got my black handbook, I knew exactly what I needed to do with it to make it uniquely mine.
Let's welcome "Paper Cut". So today's post would be on paper cut on a certain leaf design.
Patterns
So I found a pattern of a leaf on Just like that......Aesthetics in Art and Design. Here's her blog link: http://kalasirjana.blogspot.sg/ Go check her out, I find some of her ideas pretty cool. Yup. You guys can use any other patterns you find on the web as well. It would also be good to exercise your creativity by creating your own patterns.
Drawing out the Pattern
So what I did was I actually drew out the pattern on my black handbook because there wasnt any template provided. And besides, I love recreating it. So here's a picture of my drawing.
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| Leafy Drawing |
Then next, what I did was to use a penknife to cut along the pencil marks. Please take note to put a board beneath the cover page or you will be cutting the other pages in the book. So here's how the finished product looks like:
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| Final Product |
For an alternative, for those who have very thick notebooks, you guys can actually not cut too deep and just cut the first layer of the notebook. After cutting along the edges and using your penknife to peel a corner off, you find that you can actually peel the first layer out like a sticker. The pattern can then be seen without you cutting the whole piece out of a (very thick) notebook. But the downside to this is that you can only do it if you have a thick notebook. So here's how it would look like:
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| Leafy Cutout (2) |
So in the process of doing that design for the thick notebooks, I discovered a new idea!!! You know, how back then when we were in kindergarten, the teachers would always make us go outside with a colour pencil and a paper. Then they would make us put our papers on the tree bark and shade it and then the tree bark pattern just magically comes onto our paper. So yup, pretty much the same concept to this idea. Basically if you want the pattern of the leaf to come out, you just have to put your paper on the crafted out pattern and shade it. The leaf will magically come onto your paper. Here's an example of what I did. Dont mind the words. I was helping out with a design for our CCA tee. (Btw, this idea came about only because I had to design the CCA tee).
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| Leafy Design |
After doing all this, I realised that I could actually stick all these bits and pieces onto an A4 size paper to create a template for you guys. It's not perfect but it's something you guys can reference if you need to. If not, just let your imagination run wild.
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| Leaf Template |
Hope You Enjoyed This Artsy Blog Post!
Honestly, I hope you guys enjoyed reading this blog post and are trying out making your very own notebooks. Here's just another of my ideas and if you guys have any suggestions on how I could improve or perhaps even more ideas to share, feel free to comment below. :D
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